It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Truths cannot be acquired from words out of other people's mouths. Before Truths can be internalized, they must come from one's own… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis... — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience... My teaching is a means of practice, not something… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
'Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves : Liberation of the will through love will develop, we will often practice it, we… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The discipline which I have imparted to you will lead you when I am gone. Practice mindfulness diligently, to attain the goal… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Don't believe a teaching just because you've heard it from a man who's supposed to be holy, or because it's contained in… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
